I came through the airport a couple of days ago, through the domestic/BA Terminal, T3, and using the rail link.
Under normal circumstances it can take longer to walk from the train station to T3 than it takes the train to get out from central Manchester to the airport, you have to walk the length of T1 along the way.
At the airside end of T1 during this march it is necessary to go up one floor by escalator. This escalator was dismantled, in what looks like a long-term replacement process. The only alternative shown was to use a small lift between the two floors. This had a huge milling crowd around it, was very slow in operation, and only held about 10 people at a time.
It took several iterations of the lift before I could even get in it, and there seemed to be no alternative route at all. A good 10 minutes wasted. How can such an incompetent arrangement have been organised ?